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OpenupEd - a pan-European MOOCs initiative

Thursday April 25, 13

Partners in eleven countries have today launched the first pan-European MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative. The initiative is led by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and includes many ICDE member institutions. It receives support from the European Commission.

Chronicle of Higher Education: Online Access Report

Monday March 04, 13

Read the comprehensive "2012 Online Access" issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education here. The Center for eLearning has purchased the issue and made it available to anyone with an FAU account. Click the link below to login with your FAU ID in order to access the entire issue.

SUNY Signals Major Push Toward MOOCs and Other New Educational Models

Wednesday March 20, 13

The State University of New York's Board of Trustees on Tuesday endorsed an ambitious vision for how SUNY might use prior-learning assessment, competency-based programs, and massive open online courses to help students finish their degrees in less time, for less money.

Chronicle of Higher Education: Online Access

Monday March 04, 13

Read The Chronicle's report on Online Access and Higher Education.

Educause Warns Members of Security Breach

Tuesday February 26, 13

The education-technology group Educause on Tuesday warned its members that it had recently discovered a security breach on one of its servers, which it said may have compromised information from individuals' Educause Web-site profiles or passwords of .edu domain holders.

FAU online courses recognized by Quality Matters

Thursday February 21, 13

Professional Development http://www.qmprogram.org/qmresources/courses/grouped_by_inst.cfm?program=6 Online Courses http://www.qmprogram.org/qmresources/courses/grouped_by_inst.cfm?program=2#875

5 Easy Speech-to-Text Solutions

Wednesday February 13, 13

5 Easy Speech-to-Text Solutions: If you're looking for ways to transcribe your lectures, and are not interested in writing scripts in the beginning (which save a LOT of time), then consider the solutions listed here.

Free Online Workshops for FAU Faculty!

Tuesday February 12, 13

March's Sloan-C workshops available! Visit http://ow.ly/cDLjK for more information and to sign up.

Course-Suggestion Software Inspired by Netflix and Amazon

Wednesday January 30, 13

With Desire2Learn's acquisition of DegreeCompass, students will receive individualized course suggestions designed to help them progress through their degree program and graduate. Suggestions take into consideration the student's transcript, test scores, required courses for their major, and even past performance in similar courses. For more info, click "Read More."

Florida Atlantic University secures the first "Quality Matters" Continuing Education seal of 2013

Monday January 28, 13

FAU's Center for eLearning has earned the first "Quality Matters" seal for a continuing education course. Assistant Provost Dr. Monica Orozco and the CeL staff celebrate the QM recognition for the eLearning Designer/Facilitator Certification Course (CEL 1001).

Complimentary Webinar: Students Giving You the Silent Treatment?

Wednesday December 05, 12

Students Giving You the Silent Treatment? A webinar event unveils how one University of Michigan professor increased class participation by 66% through the power of active learning. December 13, 2012 at 2 PM EST (US) Picture this...a large lecture hall where one professor stands in front of hundreds of students lecturing. Most of the students are looking at laptops or mobile devices. At first glance, it appears that they aren't paying attention. This lecture hall is at the University of Michigan and the professor is Dr. Perry Samson, founder of LectureTools, the newest addition to the Echo360 Active Learning Platform. And while the students appear to be distracted by technology, they are actually doing something not quite visible to the naked eye. They are participating. In the age of active learning, interaction is the name of the game. According to Dr. Samson, "if you give students the opportunity to participate they will". Join us for this complimentary event to learn how the Active Learning Platform: Engages and energizes today's social student by leveraging mobile devices to ask confidential questions during class, take personal notes, and collaborate with other students Provides instructors and teaching assistants with the opportunity to respond globally to popular questions during class Measures learning as it happens and provides insights into student comprehension Enables the 12 benefits of Active Learning like the flipped classroom, distance learning and MOOCs Who Should Attend: Instructional Technologists and Designers, Faculty, Deans and Academic Administrators, and CIOs. What do you think? Collaborate before, during and after the event on Twitter, using the live event tweet #activelearning

American Council on Education May Recommend Some Coursera Offerings for College Credit

Tuesday December 04, 12

In what leaders describe as a pilot project, the group will consider five to 10 massive open online courses, or MOOC's, offered through Coursera for possible inclusion in the council's College Credit Recommendation Service. That service has been around since the 1970s and focuses on certifying training courses, offered outside of traditional colleges, for which students might want college credit. McDonald's Hamburger University, for example, is among the hundreds of institutions with courses certified through ACE Credit, as the service is known.

Resources on Teaching and Learning

Monday October 22, 12

A list of resources from the "Best Teachers Summer Institute"

Creating OER and Combining Licenses

Tuesday September 18, 12

The Florida Virtual Campus has developed a nine-minute video titled Creating OER and Combining Licenses. This CC-BY-SA video was created to help faculty and other OER developers overcome the challenge of using and remixing OERs with different Creative Commons licenses in a derivative work. The video examines the restrictions of each license element, and illustrates how solutions can be found when licenses are incompatible. The video is also available as Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 1 and Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 2. The design and development of this resource was made possible by the Open Access Textbook Project, a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).

New Policy Lets Anyone Post Materials on iTunesU

Thursday July 26, 12

Everyone can now use the iTunesU platform to deliver course material, Apple announced on Wednesday. Before, only professors at a university working with iTunesU--which collects free lectures from partner universities--could post audio and video clips, syllabi, and documents via the platform.

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